英文摘要 |
This study set out to develop an appropriate transition assessment instrument for senior high school students with disabilities, and also to establish validity and reliability data. The instrument used, a “transition skills scale for persons with disabilities,” was a Likert-type 4-point scale. It could be used to evaluate students' transition needs and skills and their post-school goals. The instrument included student, family, and teacher formats. After item, validity, and reliability analyses, our transitional ability scale for persons with disabilities consisted of 99 items divided into 9 subscales: self-care, psychological health/self-determination, functional academics, interpersonal interaction, home living, community/recreational life, post-secondary education, vocational training/employment, marriage and family planning. The first six subscales, with a variance of 72.47%, were used to examine current skills for independent living and community participation; the last three subscales, with a variance of 82.72%, were used to examine planning skills needed to make the move from school to post-school activities. As tructural equation model was adopted to examine the factor structure of our “transitional capacity scale for persons with disabilities,” and the results indicated that this scale performed well on the following three evaluation indicators: preliminary fit criteria, overall model fit, fit of internal structure model. The overall internal consistency reliability, represented as Cronbach α, was between .93 and .98 for the subscales. Besides, the inter-rater reliability between parents and teachers was .55. Both indices indicated that this scale had good reliability. |